वसिष्ठविश्वामित्राद्यैर्मुनिभिः संसदि स्थितैः । जयन्तधृष्टिप्रमुखैर्मन्त्रिभिर्मन्त्रकोविदैः ॥ ५ ॥
vasiṣṭhaviśvāmitrādyairmunibhiḥ saṁsadi sthitaiḥ | jayantadhṛṣṭipramukhairmantribhirmantrakōvidaiḥ || 5 ||
Translation
by the sages seated in the assembly, Vasiṣṭha, Viśvāmitra and the others; by the ministers skilled in counsel, Jayanta, Dhṛṣṭi and the rest;
Word by word
- vasiṣṭha
- Vasiṣṭha
- viśvāmitra
- Viśvāmitra
- ādyair
- (ādyaiḥ) and the others
- munibhiḥ
- by the sages
- saṁsadi
- in the assembly
- sthitaiḥ
- seated
- jayanta
- Jayanta
- dhṛṣṭi
- Dhṛṣṭi
- pramukhair
- (pramukhaiḥ) and the rest
- mantribhir
- (mantribhiḥ) by the ministers
- mantra
- in counsel
- kōvidaiḥ
- skilled
Meaning
The list begins at the top of the hall: the two great sages, Vasiṣṭha the family preceptor and Viśvāmitra who came to ask for Rāma, with the other munis; then the king's counsellors, Jayanta and Dhṛṣṭi, named in the Rāmāyaṇa among Daśaratha's eight ministers. That the wise and the worldly both listened is the point: the sages heard their own teaching from a boy's mouth, and the statesmen heard a critique of everything statecraft pursues. The reader may notice that a truth spoken simply reaches very different people at once.